Israels 2006 bombing of southern Lebanon could spur cluster bomb ban – HRW
BEIRUT, 18 February (IRIN): As some 100 nations meet Monday (18 Feb.) to discuss a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has raised its estimate of the bombs and bomblets Israel showered over southern Lebanon in the 2006 war with Hezbollah, to as many as 4,6 million.
HRWs estimate – an increase on the UN figure of about 4 million – is based on information gathered from Israeli soldiers who re-supplied Multiple Launch Rocket System units with cluster bombs during the July-August 2006.
The number is more than were used in recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq combined, it said.
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